20030922: Unable to Install Netcdf

Gagan,

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> From: "Gagan Kaul" <address@hidden>
> Subject: URGENT: Unable to Install Netcdf.
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata

The above message contained the following:

> I am trying to install netCdf on my computer but its not working. I have
> tried to install various RPMs but none is working properly. Finally I
> downloaded this beta version, but it is also giving problems. I did
> everything that you told on the installation page, but still I dont know
> what is the problem.
> 
> I have an IBM machine, and I am running Red Hat Linux 9. The software I
> am trying to work on is dacapo which requires coordination of netCdf
> with Scientific Python. But something is getting wrong in the
> installation of netCdf and hence Scientific Python is also not getting
> installed, because I need to specify the address where netcdf libraries
> are installed. So please help me with this.
> 
> I am lagging behind on my project schedule, and before installing it
> this time, I had tried to reinstall the linux software thinking that
> there might be some software installation problem. But now finally,
> having done everything I could, I am approaching you for help.
> 
> Please look into the make command error log, namely the make.log file.
> 
> Thanking you in anticipation,
> 
> Gagan Kaul,
> Senior Undergraduate Student,
> Department of Chemical Engineering,
> Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
> India.
> 
> 
> On Screen Display at the command prompt when I executed the 'make' command:
> In file included from ncfortran.h:13,
>                  from fort-attio.c:6:
> cfortran.h:134:3: #error "cfortran.h:  Can't find your environment among: 
>   - MIPS cc and f77 2.0. (e.g. Silicon Graphics, DECstations, ...)        
> - IBM AIX
> XL C and FORTRAN Compiler/6000 Version 01.01.0000.0000         - VAX   VMS
> CC 3.1 and FORTRAN 5.4.                                      - Alpha VMS
> DEC C 1.3 and DEC FORTRAN 6.0.                               - Alpha OSF
> DEC C and DEC Fortran for OSF/1 AXP Version 1.2              - Apollo
> DomainOS 10.2 (sys5.3) with f77 10.7 and cc 6.7.                - CRAY
>                             - NEC SX-4 SUPER-UX
>                      - CONVEX
>               - Sun
>        - PowerStation Fortran with Visual C++
> - HP9000s300/s700/s800 Latest test with: HP-UX A.08.07 A 9000/730        -
> LynxOS: cc or gcc with f2c.                                            -
> VAXUltrix: vcc,cc or gcc with f2c. gcc or cc with f77.                 -  
>          f77 with vcc works; but missing link magic for f77 I/O.     -    
>        NO fort. None of gcc, cc or vcc generate required names.    - f2c  
>  : Use #define    f2cFortran, or cc -Df2cFortran                 - NAG
> f90: Use #define NAGf90Fortran, or cc -DNAGf90Fortran              -
> Absoft UNIX F77: Use #define AbsoftUNIXFortran
> or cc -DAbsoftUNIXFortran     - Absoft Pro Fortran: Use #define
> AbsoftProFortran     - Portland Group Fortran: Use #define pgiFortran"
> make[2]: *** [fort-attio.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [subdir_target] Error 1
> make: *** [fortran/all] Error 2

What are the absolute pathnames of your Fortran-77 and Fortran-90
compilers?

Did you look at the examples in the file INSTALL.html?

Regards,
Steve Emmerson